Schedule

 
Date Time Activity Location Optional readings
22.06.15
Monday
10:15-13:00
Introduction and Visual Overview of Architecture and Design in Norway – Introductions, overview of the course, readings, excursions, and other logistics (P&C)
PAM Seminarrom 10 Kent, Neil. “Introduction”, The Soul of the North: A Social, Architectural and Cultural History of the Nordic Countries, 1700-1940. London: Reaktion Books. 2000. 8 – 15. 
23.06.15
Tuesday
10:15-13:00

Viking Art & Artifacts

Excursion to Bygd?y to the Viking Ship Museum (C)
PAM Seminarrom 10 Gelfer-J?rgensens, Mirjam. “Scandinavianism – a Cultural Brand” in Ed. Halén, Widar and Kerstin Wickman. Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth. Fifty years of design form the Nordic countries. Stockholm: Arvinius F?rlag \ Form F?rlag, 2003. 17- 26.
24.06.15
Wednesday
10:15-13:00

Norwegian Stave Churches

Excursion to Historic Museum (C)
PAM Seminarrom 10  
25.06.15
Thursday
10:15-13:00 Medieval Architecture - The Romanesque, the Gothic, and the meeting of pagan and Christian traditions. Monumental works such as Trondheim Cathedral, Haakon’s Hall, and Akershus (C) PAM Seminarrom 10  
26.06.15
Friday
10:15-13:00

Akershus Fortress

Excursion to Akershus Fortress (C)

PAM Seminarrom 10  
29.06.15
Monday
10:15-13:00 Norwegian folk buildings – Rural wood building tradition and the legacy of vernacular practices (P) PAM Seminarrom 10 Hegard, Tonte. “Collecting, Researching, and Presenting Folk Art in Norway, in Ed. Nelson, Marion Norwegian Folk Art. The Migration of a Tradition. Abbevile, 1995. 238-247. 
30.06.15
Tuesday
10:15-13:00

Rural Wooden Architecture

Excursion to Bygd?y to the Norwegian Folk Museum  (P)
 
PAM Seminarrom 10  
01.07.15
Wednesday
10:15-13:00

Nordic Neoclassicism -The Gustavian Age and the Karl-Johan Era

Excursion to Royal Palace - Highlighting Karl Johan Gate and University buildings en route (C)
PAM Seminarrom 10 Glambek, Ingeborg. "One of the Age's Noblest Cultural Movements: On the Theoretical Basis for the Arts and Crafts Movement," Scandinavian Journal of Design History. 1, 1991. 47-76. 
02.07.15
Thursday
10:15-13:00 Nationalist Appropriations of Vernacular Traditions - National Romanticism, the Viking Revival and the “Dream of the North”; the Lysaker circle (C) PAM Seminarrom 10 Berman, Patricia G. “Norwegian Craft Theory and National Revival in the 1890s,” in: Ed. Nicola Gordon Bowe. Art and the National Dream. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993. 155-168. 
03.07.15
Friday
10:15-13:00

Overview 19th Century Architecture and its Legacy

“Friluftsliv” case study: Developing an urban life connected to nature.

Excursion: Frognerseteren; Holmenkollen Tourist Hotel & Ski Jump (C)
PAM Seminarrom 10 Stavenow-Hidemark, Elisabet. “Viking Revival and Art Nouveau. Traditions of Excellence”, I (Red) McFadden, David Revere, Scandinavian Modern Design, 1880-1980. Abrams, 1982. 47-86. 
06.07.15
Monday
10:15-13:00 Modern Norwegian Architecture - what is Modernism? The roots of early modernism (P) PAM Seminarrom 10

Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Chapter 6 "The National," in: Nightlands: Nordic Building. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 123-146.

Tostrup Elisabeth. “Norwegian Introduction: Effective Words on Behalf of the Architect(ure). In (Ed). Asgaard Andersen, Michael, and Steven Holl. Nordic Architects Write: A Documentary Anthology. Oxon: Routledge, 2008. 203-213.
07.07.15
Tuesday
10:15-13:00

Functionalism – Modernisms and its Codifications - new classicism; functionalism and the (ir)resolution of modernism

Excursion: Villa Stenersen & Havna Alle? – highlighting Villa Damman (C)
PAM Seminarrom 10

Andersson, Henrik O. "Modern Classicism in Norden, 1910-1930," in: Nordisk Klassicism 1910-1930 exh. cat., Helsingfors, 1982. 11-28.

 Shand, P. Morton. "Stockholm 1930," Architectural Review 68, July/December 1930. 67-72.

08.07.15
Wednesday
10:15-13:00 Midterm Examination PAM Seminarrom 10  
13.07.15
Monday
10:15-13:00

Institutionalization of a Heritage

Heritage, preservation and the institutionalization of architecture and design. Treprisen; Lunning Prize; Jacob Prize (C)
PAM Seminarrom 10 Salomonsen, Kirsten Ruud. “Norway before the Bauhaus. The Teaching of Norwegian Design 1919 – 1952”, in: Scandinavian Journal of Design History 12, 2005 90-99. 
14.07.15
Tuesday
10:15-13:00

Functionalism in Oslo

Excursion to the exhibition OsloFunkis at Bymuseet (C)

PAM Seminarrom 10  
15.07.15
Wednesday
10:15-13:00

Design and Craft 1905 – 2005         

Excursion to Museum of Applied Arts (Kunstindustrimuseet) (C)

PAM Seminarrom 10 Glambek, Ingeborg. “Museums of Decorative Art in the Service of Industry and Public Enlightenment”, Scandinavian Journal of Design History. 4, 1994. 108-113
16.07.15
Thursday
10:15-13:00

History of Urban Interventions -

The urban scale and the politics of the plan - social building, and the evolution of Norwegian urbanism

 (P)
PAM Seminarrom 10

Sheffield Jr., Clarence Burton. Ch. 3, “Social Needs and Aesthetic demands. Ellen Key, Gregor Paulsson, and Swedish Design, 1899-1939”, in ed., Stritzler-Levine, Nina & Ostergard, Derek E. The Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-1939. An Alliance of Art and Industry. 1996. 35 – 51.

Vigs?, Orla. “Dreams of town and country” in ed. Linde-Laursen, Anders & Jan Olof Nilsson. Nordic Landscopes. Cultural studies of place. Nordic Council of Ministers: Copenhagen, 1995. 117 – 125.
17.07.15
Friday
10:15-13:00

Midcentury Modernism

Discords in Norwegian architecture 1945 – 1965: Different and overlapping trends in Post-war Modernism; Modernism and History

(P)
PAM Seminarrom 10 Gr?nvold, Ulf. “Norwegian Contemporary Architecture: Fehn and His Legacies” a+u Architecture and Urbanism. 411, 12. 2004. 7-10. 
20.07.15
Monday
10:15-13:00

Norwegian design 1945 – 1965

Rebuilding Norway, The Scandinavian Design movement, Industrial design (ID-gruppen)

PAM Seminarrom 10 Fallan, Kjetil. “Introduction”, in Ed, Fallan, Kjetil. Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories. London: Berg Publishers, 2012. ss. 1-12.
21.07.15
Tuesday
10:15-13:00

Midcentury Modernism

Excursion to central Oslo (P)
PAM Seminarrom 10  
22.07.15
Wednesday
10:15-13:00

Norwegian design 1945 – 1965

Rebuilding Norway, The Scandinavian Design movement, Industrial design (ID-gruppen)

PAM Seminarrom 10 Fallan, Kjetil. “Introduction”, in Ed, Fallan, Kjetil. Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories. London: Berg Publishers, 2012. ss. 1-12.
23.07.15
Thursday
10:15-13:00

Contemporary Norwegian Architecture

Narrative of nature; nature, place and identity; continuation of themes – from National Romanticism to critical regionalism; key developments in contemporary Norwegian architecture from the 1980s to the present.
PAM Seminarrom 10

Berre, Nina “National Tourist Routes as architectural Policy” in Ed. Berre, Nina, and Hege Lysholm. Omveg: Arkitektur Og Design Langs 18 Nasjonale Turistvegar. Oslo: Norsk form, 2008. 28-31. 

Colquhoun, A. “The Concept of Regionalism” in: Eds. Nalbantoglu G.B. and C.T.Wong Postcolonial Spaces. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997.13-23.

Kampevold Larsen, Janika. “The Forms of The National Tourist Routes” in (Ed) Berre, Nina, and Hege Lysholm. Omveg: Arkitektur Og Design Langs 18 Nasjonale Turistvegar. Oslo: Norsk form, 2008. 22- 26. 

24.07.15
Friday
10:15-13:00

Contemporary Norwegian Architecture

New Norwegian architecture its noteworthy trends and developments.

Future directions in Norwegian architecture: ’Norwegian Wood’ and ’The Fjord City’
PAM Seminarrom 10

Skotte, Hans. “The State of Identity in Contemporary Architecture” in (Ed) Almaas, Ingerid Helsing. Made in Norway: Norwegian Architecture Today. Basel: Arkitektur N, 2010. 10-13.

Affentranger, Christoph. “Introduction”, and Ch. 1: “A Window to the Forest” in: Neue Holzarchitektur in Skandinavien (New Wood Architecture in Scandinavia). Basel: Bikha?user Verlag, 1997. 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23.

27.07.15
Monday
10:15-13:00

Contemporary Norwegian Design

New Norwegian design, from Norway Says to Norwegian presence. 

PAM Seminarrom 10 Johnsen, Espen. “Form follows emotion” in Ed. Halén, Widar and Kerstin Wickman. Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth. Fifty years of design form the Nordic countries. Stockholm: Arvinius F?rlag \ Form F?rlag, 2003. 17- 26.
28.07.15
Tuesday
10:15-13:00

Drawings and models, from 1830 to the present

Excursion to Nasjonalmuseet – Arkitektur where we will se the permanent exhibition Building Ideas. We will also have a brief look at the Sverre Fehn-exhibition Ode to Osaka.
PAM Seminarrom 10  
29.07.15
Wednesday
10:15-13:00 Review for Final Examination PAM Seminarrom 10  
30.07.15
Thursday
To be announced

Final Examination 

To be announced  

 

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